Excavated
1934-35.

Guidobaldi
wrote that this house was originally connected to the House of the Gem
internally, and also, at one time, to the House of the Telephus Relief.This house was in fact formed from the lower
floor of the southern part of the House of the Gem.

In
the Republican period, rooms A to E were transformed into finely decorated
residential rooms, room A was a triclinium, room B was a cubiculum, room C was an exedra, room D was another
cubiculum, and room E was an oecus, all opening onto a windowed corridor now
scarcely appreciable, but bearing witness by the vaulted roof, and the elegant
mosaic floors dating to the late II Style.

In
the last years of the city, the proprietor divided the entire property
horizontally and vertically into the three separate dwellings.

This
house was in fact formed from the lower floor of the southern part of the House
of the Gem by eliminating the stairs,and
by opening a separate entrance doorway towards Porta Marina. Rooms A and B were
transformed into service rooms, the kitchen containing sink and small recesses
for keeping the household pottery, and moisture resistant supplies were set up
instead in room G, whilst room H functioned as a more private cubiculum, and in
this rear room as a repository and work-room for a weaver, whose records were
graffitied on the north wall of the vestibule. Also found in this room was a
wooden carbonized box, completely crushed and containing cups and nearly whole glass
perfume bottles, together with the bronze seal of M. Pilius Primigenius
Granianus. In exedra C, the remains of seven skeletons were found, included
amongst them was a baby lying on a mattress made of plant material, in a wooden
rocking cradle.

Source:
The Wilhelmina and Stanley A. Jashemski archive in the University of Maryland
Library, Special Collections (See collection page) and made available under the Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial License v.4. See Licence
and use details.

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According
to “Guida”- a cradle in carbonized wood was found in the House of M. Pilius
Primigenius Granianus.